Morning, everybody, or afternoon, whatever the case may be. Welcome to the fourth president ial question and answer session. I am Javier Palomarez and as president and ceo of the u. S. Hispanic chamber of commerce i have the honor of representing 4. 1 hispanicowned businesses that together contribute over 661 billion to the American Economy. We advocate on behalf of 250 major corporations through our network of 200 local chambers and Business Associations worldwide. We represent the interest of business men and women who happen to be of hispanic descent, we never forget we are businesses. Every product we create and service we provide goes to benefit this American Economy. As an association that represents 4. 1 hispanic Business Owners we have an accountability to make sure our voices are heard by each candidate. Not only as business leaders, but taxpayers, Campaign Donors and ultimately as voters. That is why this is so important. This question and answer session is the fourth in a se
Rizze, White House Correspondent for sirius xm. Wesley lowry, National Reporter for the washington post. Erica sutherland, assistant professor at the school of communications at howard university. Jp grant, president of grant capital management. Skipping over our next guest for just a moment, kevin johnson, mayor of sacramento and former member of nbas phoenix suns. Donna linewan leje, breaking news editor for usa today shes the past president of the National Press club and the vice chair of the clubs speakers committee. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, jonathan selant, the washington correspondent for nj advanced media, the star ledger he wants a former National Press Club President and the member of the National Press Club Speakers Committee who organized todays events. Thank you, jonathan. Calliope parthemos, chief of staff for the mayor of baltimore. Bruce johnson, anchor reporter at wusa tv. Chris chambers, professor of media studies at georgetown university. And john dillm
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And look at you in the eye and try to figure out who you are. And see most importantly if you understand their challenges and problems. We see a lot of National Polls but we dont have a National Primary. Iowa, New Hampshire, south carolina, you move right along and there is no surprise that we consider New Hampshire to be important but not the exclusion of all other places so we are building out our infrastructure. And in the business of the primary and National Poll and all of that what is most important, and i run a lot of political campaigns, if you build a stage with no scaffolding the stage can collapse. We have seen that. As you build the stage, you have to build the scaffolding so you have a solid foundation. That is how i have done it. I am having a great time. I show up and you are like thank you for coming. Why wouldnt have . Someone is like you will do this and that and i said i dont care what you do. Lets just have fun. In the republican primary there seems to be establishm
Lonely battle by herself. ,o, we can talk about the guns but there is a much deeper issue. It is who are these people, why are they so alienated, why are they so alone. When we deal with that, then we get to the root of the problem. So, the idea that if we just are , we will not take what everybodys guns. It is not practical. Who want topeople commit violence will still do it. I think we need to look deeper. Everybody was to talk about mental illness, i am open to that. There are supposed to be a way in which you will have Automatic Access to a gun dealer to understand that somebody has and issues mental illness. Need to do that, there does not need to be a loophole. The bigger issue is something we all need to think about. What is our responsibility echo what a societys responsibility to end this drift into isolation. Does government have a role in preventing gun violence . Its part ofch the reason i expanded medicaid, so that people could get help. So that the mentally ill could get